Monday, September 15, 2014

FW 1.27d --Quinet quote continued--

1.27a:
Now after all that farfatch'd and peragrine or dingnant or clere lift we our ears, eyes of the darkness...1.27b:
Lean neath stone pine the pastor lies with his crook; young pricket by pricket's sister nibbleth...1.27c:
Thus, too, for donkey's years. Since the bouts of Hebear and Hairyman the cornflowers...1.27d:
and, though for rings round them, during a chiliad of perihelygangs, the Formoreans...1.27e:
and Little on the Green is childsfather to the City (Year! Year! And laughtears!), these paxsealing...

FDV:
"and though, for rings round them during a hundred thousand
yeargangs, the Formoreans have brittled the Tooath of the Danes and the
Oxmen have been pestered by the Firebugs & the Joynts have given up
wallmaking" →
"and though, for rings round them during a hundred
thousand yeargangs, the Formoreans have brittled the Tooath of the Danes
and the Oxman has been pestered by the Firebugs & the Joynts have thrown up wallmaking"

"...and while around them the cities
have changed masters and names, while some have ceased to exist, while
the civilizations have collided with each other and smashed..."

and, though for rings round them, during a chiliad of perihelygangs,

German rings 'rum: all around
Joyce re above: "ringsome = German ringsum, around" ("rory end to the regginbrow was to be seen ringsome on the aquaface")

FDV: "during a hundred
thousand yeargangs"

chiliad: a thousand; a millennium

perihelion: a point when nearest to the sun
around-sun-goings, ie, years